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Think you have a pretty good understanding of LTE? This article takes a deep look into how LTE is deployed, how LTE works as a radio technology, the types of LTE, how LTE affects battery life, what carriers will do with LTE, and the future of 4G as a whole.

Google’s new Nexus is a monster of a phone, designed with wireless capabilities that outclass all other Android phones today. Launching with Android 5.0 Lollipop, it’s sure to be the best flagship of the year.

GE Global Research announced it developed a brand new switch technology that can be used for enhancing the radios used in 4G phones to provide much faster speeds. Called a “MEMS switch”, it promises to drastically improve 4G efficiency and performance.

Last week, Google formally introduced the Nexus 5 by LG to the world, along with Android 4.4 KitKat. The Nexus 5 is a major refresh to the Nexus smartphone line, and offers great network capabilities for networks across the world for the price Google is selling it for.

Yesterday, the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C were both announced at an event at Apple’s headquarters. Apple makes a strong point throughout the unveiling that both the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C support more ultra-fast networks than any other phone available on the market today.

At 12:01am US/EDT yesterday, Sprint turned off the iDEN network nationally as part of the next phase of Network Vision. With the iDEN network shut down, the next step for Sprint is to reuse the iDEN spectrum for 3G/4G services.

Earlier today, T-Mobile announced that it will offer the iPhone 5 to customers for its network. With this announcement, all four major carriers now offer it. But T-Mobile’s iPhone is better than the others, in some subtle, but important ways.

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S4 to the world, it promised that it would be a truly global phone by supporting more bands than any other LTE-enabled device. It is a bold promise that Samsung won’t be able to back up in the USA.

Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint have been falling all over themselves rolling out new coverage areas as fast as possible. Well, Verizon is continuing to bet big with LTE. Come next year, we’re going to see handsets without CDMA chips running solely on Verizon’s LTE network.

Recently, several carriers around the world have begun talking about LTE-Advanced, or at least a few features of LTE-Advanced. Notably, Sprint and T-Mobile in the United States have been quick to mention that they are LTE-Advanced ready. But what exactly is it?

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